Lectures and Events AY 2011-2012 October 5, 2011
Life After SAIS. Brown bag lunch with Shannon Ewan, SAIS Alumna, Class of 2011, Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow, National Nuclear Security Administration.
“Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program” September 28, 2011
Brown bag lunch with William Pomeranz, Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
“Commercial Codes and Kangaroo Courts: The Contradictions of Russian Legal Reform” September 16, 2011
Brown bag lunch with Nils Muiznieks, Director of the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia.
“Russian Foreign Policy toward the Three Baltic States”. (Watch video) September 14, 2011
Brown bag lunch with Peter Reddaway, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University.
“The Politics of the Upcoming Presidential Election in Russia”. (Listen to the audio) September 8, 2011
Back-to-school wine and cheese reception for new and returning Russian and Eurasian Studies students. Lectures and Events AY 2010-2011 April 14, 2011
Student-organized conference “Russia and Eurasia: 20 Years after the Soviet Union”.
Panel 1. “Russia and the West: Rivalry or Partnership?”
Panel 2. “Between East and West: Islam and Democracy in Middle Eurasia”
Panel 3. “Russia and the New Architecture of the Asia-Pacific Region” April 6, 2011
Brown bag lunch with Fiona Hill, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution.
“Stagnation, Modernization or Westernization in Russia's Future” March 30, 2011
Brown bag lunch with Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria; Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition of Foreign Policy
“Reset” between Russia and Central Europe? March 9, 2011
Brown bag lunch with David J. Kramer, Executive Director, Freedom House; former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2008-2009); former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
"U.S. Policy toward Human Rights in Russia: A Critique" February 23, 2011
Lunch with David Cameron, Professor of Political Science, Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in EU Studies , and Mitchell Orenstein, Associate Professor, SAIS European Studies.
“Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: The Impact of International Actors and Alliances” February 9, 2011
Lunch panel talk with The Hon. Pamela Quanrud, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe; Amb.Gyorgy Szapary, Ambassador of Hungary to the United States; Prof. Charles Gati, Interim Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, SAIS; Amb. Kurt Volker, Moderator, Senior Fellow and Managing Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS.
"Hungary: A Second Change of the System?" November 17, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to the NATO (1998-2001); U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2001-2005); and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (2005-2008).
“Dealing with Russia” November 16, 2010
Life After SAIS. Brown bag lunch with Ranko Milic, SAIS alumnus, Class of 2005; Manager of Russia and Ukraine Debt Capital Markets, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe).
“Careers in Banking: Russian Debt Capital Markets” November 10, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Toby T. Gati, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Senior International Adviser, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
“US-Russian Economic Relations and Russia's Modernization Agenda” November 3, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Marlene Laruelle, Visiting Scholar, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, SAIS.
“Russian Policy in the Arctic: Ambitions, Dreams, and Strategies” October 13, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Henry E. Hale; Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University.
“Authoritarian Developments in Russia in the 2000s: A View from Below” October 6, 2010
Life After SAIS. Brown bag lunch with Heather Kauffman, SAIS Alumna, Class of 2010, Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow, National Nuclear Security Administration.
“Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program” September 29, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Sergey Spasennov, Partner, The Pepeliaev Group LLC.
“Developments in Russian Legal Reform from the Standpoint of a Major Russian Law Firm” September 15, 2010
Brown bag lunch with David Hoffman, Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine and The Washington Post; Former White House correspondent, State Department correspondent, Jerusalem and Moscow bureau chief, Foreign Editor, and Assistant Managing Editor at The Washington Post (1982-2009).
“The End of the Cold War: Reagan, Gorbachev, and Lessons for Today” September 8, 2010
Back-to-school wine and cheese reception for new and returning Russian and Eurasian Studies students. Lectures and Events AY 2009-2010 April 28, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Alisher Khamidov, Ph.D. Candidate, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, SAIS, and Roman Muzalevsky, International Affairs and Security Analyst; Manager, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, SAIS.
“Kyrgyzstan in Turmoil” March 31, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Serhiy Kudelia, SAIS Ph.D. 2008; Assistant Professor of Political Science, National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (Ukraine); Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto.
“Ukraine Changes Course: Where Will the New President Lead the Nation?” March 10, 2010
Brown bag lunch with Toby T. Gati, Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia, National Security Council and Assistant Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence, 1993-1997; Senior International Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
“The Politics of Russian Energy” February 24, 2010
Lunch reception with Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia(2004-2009); Special Envoy for Guantanamo Detainees, U.S. Department of State.
“Dealing with Putin’s Russia” November 18, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Managing Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations.
“NATO and Russia: Is Russia Re-fighting the Cold War -- And is it Winning?” November 3, 2009
Dinner reception with Dr. Archibald Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
"The Fall of the Wall and the Fall of Communism: Why - and Why 1989?" Organized jointly with St. Antony's College of the Oxford University . November 3, 2009
Life After SAIS. Brown bag lunch with Valerio Fabbri, SAIS Alum ’08, ENI – Atyrau, Kazakhstan, Socio-Economic Advisor for Sustainable Development.
"Energy and Sustainability in the Caspian Region” October 28, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Nikolay Rudenskiy, Deputy Editor, Grani.ru; Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.
“Under Pressure: Media Politics in Russia Today” October 14, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya, Director of Russia Programs, National Security Archive.
"Falsifying History: Contemporary Russian Debates about theBeginning of WWII" October 7, 2009
Life After SAIS. Brown bag lunch with Maia Gemmill, SAIS Alumna '07, Foreign Affairs Specialist, National Nuclear Security Administration.
“Overview of the Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program at the National Nuclear Security Administration” September 30, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. David Kramer, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
“Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations: Dim Prospects for Success?” September 16, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Sharon Wolchik, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Adjunct Chair of the Advanced Area Studies Program on East Central Europe at the Foreign Service Institute.
“Electoral Continuity and Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia”
Lectures and Events AY 2008-2009 April 8, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Angela Stent , Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in the Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. “Mugged in Moscow: Teaching U.S-Russia Relations after the Georgia War”.
March 11, 2009
Lunch with Dr. Clifford Gaddy, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development; Brookings Institution.
"The Evolution of "Kremlin, Inc.": The Untold Story of How Vladimir Putin Established the Protection Racket that Gives Him Control over Russia". February 25, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Tatiana Shakleina, Professor of Political Science; Chair of the Department of Applied Research of International Affairs; Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University).
"The Prospects for US-Russian Relations under the New Administrations of Presidents Medvedev and Obama". February 11, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Celeste Wallander , Executive Director, Eurasian Strategy Project, Georgetown University .
"Assessing the Sources and Forms of Russian Power". January 28, 2009
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University .
"Russia and the Middle East". November 19, 2008
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Bruce Parrott, Professor and Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, SAIS .
"Russia, Georgia, and the West". November 5 , 2008
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Donald Jensen, Resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations.
"Implications of the Global Financial Crisis on Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy". October 22, 2008
Lunch with John Garrard, Ph.D. Author and Professor of Russian Studies, University of Arizona , and ?Carol Garrard, Ph.D., Professor and Independent Scholar .
"From Party to Patriarch: Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent". October 8, 2008
Brown bag lunch with Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief, Russia Today Television.
"US-Russian Relations Through the Media Prism". October 1, 2008
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Sally Stoecker , Researcher and Consultant on Human Trafficking, SAIS Ph.D.'95.
"Human Trafficking in Russia: A Ten-Year Perspective". September 17 , 2008
Brown bag lunch with David Francis, Freelance Journalist, John J. McCloy Journalism Fellow.
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